Usually means: Response to harm with harm.
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  1. retorsion: Merriam-Webster
  2. retorsion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. retorsion: Collins English Dictionary
  4. retorsion: Wordnik
  5. retorsion: Wiktionary
  6. retorsion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. retorsion: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Retorsion, retorsion: Dictionary.com
  9. Retorsion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Retorsion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. retorsion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Retorsion: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. retorsion: FreeDictionary.org
  14. retorsion: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Retorsion: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  (law) An act of retaliation taken by one nation against another as a reprisal.

Similar:
reprisal, retrocession, reprise, revengement, repayment, reversion, payback, revenge, talion, redition, more...

Opposite:
conciliation, conciliatory, appeasement

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Similar:
reprisal, retrocession, reprise, revengement, repayment, reversion, payback, revenge, talion, redition, more...

Opposite:
conciliation, conciliatory, appeasement



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